A native of
Versailles, he was born March 17, 1926, to the late Ambrose D. and Odell
Littrell Gilkison. He was a retired farmer, attended the Carlisle Christian
Church, and was a member of the South Elkhorn Baptist Church.

He was the
son of the late Clyde and Mattie Gilpin and was a member of Brookside Baptist
Church in Nicholasville. He was also a retired district manager of vocational
rehabilitation for the state of Kentucky.

In addition
to his wife of 62 years, he is survived by two sons, Gerald L. (Gail) Gilpin,
Lawrenceburg, and William "Bill" P. (Lisa) Gilpin, Lexington; two daughters,
Barbara G. Mayfield, Lexington, and Carol (Jim) Turner -Lodmell, Versailles; a
brother, William T. Gilpin, Liberty; a sister, Emogene (George) Brummitt, Plant
City, Fla.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Services
were conducted Sunday, Oct. 28, at Milward Southland, Lexington. Burial was in
the Trace Fork Cemetery in Casey County.

Contributions are suggested to the Brookside Baptist Church or Hospice of the
Bluegrass.

Gormley

John
Benjamin Gormley, 78, of Versailles, widower of Stella Gormley, died Tuesday,
Oct. 16, 2012, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Leestown Road in
Lexington.

Graveside
services with military honors were conducted Tuesday, Oct. 23, at Camp Nelson
National Cemetery by Fr. Linh Xuan Nguyen, who was of great assistance to the
family. Blackburn & Ward Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Born at
Monterey, in Owen County, he was the son of the late Robert F. Sr. and Lula
Bradford Kemper. He was a retired employee of the Frankfort State Journal, a
Baptist, and U.S. Army veteran of World War II.

A native of
Versailles, she was born on Oct. 14, 1939, to the late Raymond and Laura Fugate
Sturgeon. She was a retired employee from IBM.

Survivors
include two sons, John Reed and Jim Reed, both of Frankfort; a brother, Raymond
Sturgeon, Texas; two grandsons, Eric Reed and Aaron Reed, both of Frankfort; and
several nieces and nephews. A brother, Tom Sturgeon, is deceased.

Sean Carl
Vigle, 52, passed away at his home in Versailles on Oct. 16, 2012.

Born Feb.
13, 1960, he was the son of Marjorie Mae Britton Vigle and John Barry Vigle,
Jr., both of whom preceded him in passing. He was grandson of the late Mary
Marcum Britton and Owen Britton, and Louie Pearl Conn Vigle and John Barry Vigle
Sr. He is survived by a brother, Gregory Owen Vigle; a nephew, John Sean Tyler
Batcha Vigle (both of Versailles); and a niece, Silvana Vivienne Marjorie
Goberdhan-Vigle (of Chapel Hill, N.C.); four first cousins, Joseph Piner Jr.,
and James Piner, of Wilmington, N.C., Phyllis McMahan, Versailles, and Pamela
Bates, Greenville S.C.; and numerous second and third cousins. Although he was
born in Versailles, the family was at that time residing in Dayton, Ohio, and he
subsequently visited family frequently in Woodford County throughout his life,
but did not reside here until settling here in late 2001 to assist in caring for
his Mother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in the later years of her life.
His initial elementary education was fostered beginning at age 4 in one of the
earliest Montessori schools in the U.S., in Dayton, Ohio, after which he
attended Horace Mann Elementary School in Dayton from grades 1-6. Upon his
family moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1972, he attended Walnut Hills and
City-Wide High Schools until 1978. Following High School, he continued an
interest in music that had begun several years earlier, when he had honed his
skills as a drummer. From 1980 to 1985, he was the drummer for the popular local
and regional rock band, "The Erector Set"; the band toured throughout Ohio and
the Midwest for several years, playing clubs and concert venues with many
popular groups at the time including The Motels, The Busboys, Modern English,
The Stray Cats, The Ramones, Wall of Voodoo, The Call, Psychedelic Furs, Joan
Jett, REM, and U2. Their 1982 EP album "Imitation of Life" was well received and
songs taken from that album were incorporated into several multi-group
compilations of music from the 1980s produced in both the U.S. and Europe. In
1985 he and other members of the band moved to Boston and continued to play in
the Boston area, but eventually disbanded, and he then moved to Los Angeles in
1988. In Los Angeles, he lived in the Hollywood area and worked as a
Pre-Operative/Surgery Scheduling Clerk at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center,
and pursued music in his spare time, including playing as a studio musician, and
with the fledgling L.A. group "Boo Radley." Although he continued to be involved
with music, his personal interests increasingly became centered around
automobile racing of all types, an interest that had begun when he was still a
child, as a result of his Father’s involvement in motorsports in the 1960s. From
1988 onward he attended more than 150 motor racing and other automotive events,
with a special focus on road racing and vintage sports cars. He steadily
accumulated an enormous library on those topics, with which he meticulously
researched all aspects of motor racing history, and eventually became a
respected expert in that field. In total he contributed more than 100 letters,
photographs, and articles to a wide range of publications including Autoweek,
Grand Prix World, Motor Sport, On Track, Road & Track, Sports Car International,
Victory Lane, Vintage Motorsport, Vintage Racecar, and numerous local, regional,
and marque club newsletters (as well as one lengthy article for the Woodford Sun
- May 4, 2006). In 1994, he placed first in a year-long research competition
sponsored by Vintage Motorsport magazine, in which he claimed victory over a
number of professional journalists, yet submitted his entries (more than 300
pages) in handwritten form. He corresponded with fellow enthusiasts from around
the world, many who sought out his expertise to answer especially difficult
historical questions; on more than one occasion, owners of rare vintage racing
cars turned to him for historical information about their own cars. In general,
he had a love for learning and literacy, the visual and performing arts, and
popular culture, and a remarkable ability to remember both facts and names; in
recent years, he regularly read several books each week. From 1995 to 1997 he
lived in New York City where he was employed as a medical records clerk at The
Institute for Urban Family Health, and then moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he
worked for LakeWest Hospital from 1998, until moving to Versailles in 2001. Sean
gathered friends like a magnet wherever he roamed in life, and upon his passing
his family received messages of condolence even from friends who had not been in
contact with him since childhood. Words of tribute included forgiving, humble,
kind, and patient; many praised his sense of humor, and multiple mourners
referred to him as an "old soul". Friends and family near and far, long
separated by both time and geography, traveled from as far distant as Los
Angeles to attend his services, along with many local friends who had known him
for more than a decade.

Services
were held on Sunday, Oct. 21 at Blackburn & Ward Funeral home, conducted by
Deacon Pat DeLuca of St. Leo’s Catholic Church. Interment will be in the
Versailles Cemetery.

Memorial
contributions are suggested to St. Leo’s Catholic Church, or the Woodford County
Library, Versailles.

Born in
Liberty, Ky., he was a son of Mary F. Woodrum of Wilmore and the late Arthur Lee
Woodrum. He retired from RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company as a department supervisor
in 1990 after 28 years of service and then retired from Community Trust Bank in
2010, where he had served as a courier for 18 years. He was a member and former
vice president of the Woodford County Jaycees, was an avid golfer and Big Blue
fan, and was known for his speed and proved it with his in park home runs with
the R.J. Reynolds softball team. He was a member and deacon of Versailles
Baptist Church, had served as an usher and assistant church treasurer. His love
of family and faith was most important to him. His friends knew he cared by a
hand on their shoulder and his handshake.